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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight five five one three five. I'm gonna try it.
Where did you work that had the most embarrassing or
uncomfortable uniform? Because of all the jobs I've had, I
either had to wear their clothes, like in retail, which
wasn't that bad, or the one place when I worked
a Blockbuster. As you know, I'm a very famous alumnus

(00:22):
of the Blockbuster family, I was. I was an assistant manager.
I had a key to the store. I had a
key to multiple stores. Actually, if I'm gonna yeah, but
all you had to wear was you had to wear
like a polo shirt one. Yeah, that's all you had
to wear. I wish I still had mine. I was
actually hoping I still had it. I was going to
rock that thing. I mean a wear that to the club.

(00:42):
It's a conversation starter right there. I'm sure they're stilling
on an eBay for a bunch. You had to you
had to wear khaki pants or shorts, and you had
to tuck your shirt in, which that was the part
I didn't like. I like tucking my shirt in. But
what was McDonald's bad when I started?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, because like they had you in like a button down,
short sleeve shirt and you had to wear a tie,
but it wasn't like a real tie, the tie that
you know, like a fake ties woul connecting the bat back.
And the girls had to wear like a like a
weird kind of tie, like a woman's tie, and like
a looks like a little.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah pretty much.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, because we like the McDonald's I worked at, had
like the it was like a fifties theme, so like
it had.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
So liked there was a theme of it and it had.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
A little Hamburger guy in the in the car, and
so yeah, we looked like a sock hoop.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I wouldn't pay for I got the hair down.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I mean all the places that you worked, what was
the worst chase you worked at? You worked at Minards,
which is a hardware store. If people don't know, you
worked at pet Boys. Yeah, yeah, those two are probably
the worst. Minards, I had to wear an apron, but
they make everyone have a tape measure on their belts
at all times, so like why am I walking around with?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
What am I going to measure?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
But then Poys was the most uncomfortable.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Because they gave you those like starch shirts and your
name on it, and you had to wear like the
dickys like work pants with like non slid slid slideline
shoes or whatever because there's oil I speak. But that
uniform sucked. It was really uncomfortable and they washed it
so you had to go and change. Like, yeah, he

(02:23):
got sent to a service and you got it.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
All to pay for that service. By the way, when
they cleaned your uniform for you, No, it was complimentary.
You just came and because there were some places where
they make you pay. Yeah, comes out of your pay
pay the company to make your uniform. I never looked,
I was.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
You probably were Kiki with KMC. Was it bad, Yeah,
it was bad. Same like Jason. We had to wear
a little apron. We had to wear a little collared shirt. However,
for me it was the non slip shoes, like they
were so ugly and we used to get them from
payless and they were just so they were so ugly,
but also smelling like chicken all day every like you

(03:01):
can't get the smell out of your like skin, your
hair because you're there around this grease all day.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
And so that was the worst part for you didn't
have a KFC wig and then like a normal wig. No,
back then it was one wig. Yeah, we were. We
had to wear that one wig for years. It was
connected to the hat to get off before I got
this d radio starts, so we have multiple wigs. Well,
we got to we're moving on EIGHTEENA good morning, Hi, Tina.

(03:32):
What is it that you worked at this place? In
the uniform was really bad? Baker square, Baker's square. What's
the uniform?

Speaker 5 (03:41):
We had to wear a white dress shirt and black
chants and an apron, but just wearing a dress shirt to.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
Work it was, you know, uncomfortable and after a shifty
all itself too.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but that doesn't I mean, it
doesn't sound comfortable, but it's not as bad as I
don't know. I mean, you work at Hooters, and I
guess you know when you work at Hooters what you're wearing,
you know going into it. But I still would think
it's it's really revealing. I mean there's a lot going
on there and you're serving like hot soup to people

(04:16):
who you worked at Hooters to.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
I'm saying, if you wor.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Right, right? No, I get that. Yeah, Like when I
worked there, I knew, I knew what when I was
gonna be one of those those daisy dukes and stuff
like that. But I knew. I knew, and showing all
my cleavage, I knew that what I signed up for.
Thank you, Tina, have a good day. I worked at
Gilly Hicks. What is that? Isn't it like another Hooters

(04:43):
or something.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
When I was in college, clothing store.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Hollister, you had to wear red plaid pajama pants with
a tank top and flip flops in the winter. Apparently
that sounds comfortable. I worked at my Nards and the
Cabins and applying to his department the only department where
you had to wear dress pants and button down shirts.
I'd be pulling pallets of merchandise, stocking shelves, cleaning the
displays in dress pants and split my pants all the time. Yeah.

(05:12):
I worked at cheesecake factory and the all white was terrible.
Somebody said I worked at six Flags and I worked
on the games. We had zebra stripe polo referee shirts
and really uncomfortable pants. Yeah. Someone just sent a picture
of like a tuxedo they had to wear god wors
you know, from white scrubs as an er trauma nurse.

(05:32):
Now that sounds like that doesn't sound a good idea
at all er trauma nurse. You weren't all I mean,
I love, I mean who thought about that? Yeah, no
one thought it. Hey Jenna, good morning. You worked at Disney.
What'd you have to wear?

Speaker 7 (05:49):
So we have these like nylon black pants, a long
sleeve I don't even know what maturial was shirt and
like a hat and thunders and I worked outside obviously
in nine hundred degrees for the keat selling fans and

(06:09):
water for people that were sweating.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
Well, I'm literally stripping.

Speaker 7 (06:13):
Claw have a magical day?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Right, you have a magical day and they don't play
it Disney, right, Like, if you're not up to complete
in total perfect standard at old times, then they have
an issue.

Speaker 7 (06:27):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I mean if you didn't they have
a magical day?

Speaker 6 (06:31):
You were written up. I think my whatever I signed
it up now.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
That can talk.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
When you were there?

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Wow, Yes, that's hardcore. I guess when you make billions
of dollars, it's what you have to do to people.
But thank you, Jenna, have a good day.

Speaker 6 (06:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
That might be an even better segment is what is
the thing you had to say that wherever you were
on a Magical Day song? You know or or yeah
remember we did that one time? Was what was the birthday?

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Saw?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Because it's like you'll never forget it, You'll never forget it.
And what do you have to say a pet? Boys say?
Think or uh, thanks for trusting the boys. This is
Jason speaking. How can I help you.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
With about our micheline twire special today?

Speaker 1 (07:17):
They knew the boy.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Jack Baby watch over you?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Hey Taylor, Hi Taylor, good morning, good morning. Hey you
worked at the legendary Portillos And yeah, it was like
a striped uniform. I guess I'm not paying a white shirt.
It's a white shirt. I'm not paying much attention because
I'm too busy ordering half the menu. What do you wear?

Speaker 6 (07:44):
Well, now it's the polo shirt.

Speaker 7 (07:46):
But a few years back it was a white button
down with some dress.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
Blacks and a tie. So I know how to tie
a tie down?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh okay, well that makes sense, but a tie.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
And they had that funky hat too, that that black.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Stand outside all day.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
And by the way, I have a theory, I was, oh, yeah, yeah,
that had to have been the worst gig. Did you
guys like compete or I don't know, to see who
had to do that stand in the line do the
drive through because they have a very efficient drive through,
but it requires a lot of people on the heat
they do.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
They kind of just send people out there if.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
You're good at it. Unfortunately, they're always out there. Okay,
And I was pretty good.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Thank you, Taylor, Have a good day. I was just
talking to someone about this poor Portolo because they put
them all over the country now, and of course it's
a Chicago fast food restaurant, but they have like there's
one in my hometown in the Arizona and because there's
so many Chicagos to go to Arizona. And when I
go there and I eat it, it does not taste
the same. Oh no, it doesn't taste the same. And

(08:54):
I don't and and and then somebody else was talking
about how they love Chicago pizza in North Carolina and
they get it even though there's probably a Giordano's or
whatever the loom Mohl's there or whatever, but like, it
doesn't taste the same. New York piece of the same.
People are saying it's cut with the water, the water content,
you know, the minerals and whatever is different in that way.
I'm sure it's all mental, but for whatever reason, certain

(09:16):
food just doesn't taste the same unless you're eating it
where it was made right for whatever reason, or unless
you buy it from wherever it was made, you know,
frozen or what it. Hey Mike, yes, hey, you weren't
at Enterprise rent a car? You know. Fun fact about
enterpri car. That's the only rental car place you can
rent when you're twenty one, isn't it. That's the youngest.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Correct. Yeah, you have to be twenty one to rent there.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, but everywhere else you gotta be like twenty five
or some twenty six or something like that. Random.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah, there's certain situations where you have the rent of
twenty one. Yeah, but yeah, most of them. That's for
first on reasons. Yeah, twenty five.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
I guess I don't know why I knew that, But anyway,
what was the uniform? Bonus fact?

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Complete?

Speaker 5 (10:01):
A complete suiting tie?

Speaker 7 (10:02):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Really still that way?

Speaker 5 (10:05):
You know when when I said now, it's not now
it's like a polo and khakis. But when I started,
it was a complete suit and tie, which doesn't sound terrible,
but you also had to clean cars in one degree
weather in Chicago, and a complete suit and tie you're
tied kept getting stuck in the vacuum. You were completely
sweaty having to talk to customers from your office because

(10:28):
you just came out of the bay cleaning a car.
So yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Why what was the great most thing you found in
a person's car? I'm sure that you find all kinds
of stuff.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Yeah, it's it was so long ago. Uh, I can't
say a couple of things, yeah, cockroaches?

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (10:54):
What somebody who came back for vacation and they had cocks?

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh god, all right, Mike, I gotta go. I wish
I hadn't asked that question. Have a good day. No, no, no, no,
I know. Thank you have a good one, man, Thanks
for listening. I asked the question, Hey, Warren, what did
you worked at the Disney Yacht and Beach Club. Hell? Yeah,
you have been that for a college program, okay? And
what did you have to wear?

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Their white non slip sneakers, baby blue pants, a yellow
green blue, pink white striped shirt, yellow suspenders, and a
yellow bow tie.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Good lord, looking like a Marrow Sands out here, like
say by the Bolo Sands.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
If you know, you know? If you don't, I say
about the bed and you need to learn it Warren,
Have a good day. I can tell you're traumatized. Still
have a good day. Yeah, let me go through the
rest of these text here. I worked at Hulahans. You
had to wear tea shirts with catchphrases based on new
menu items, one of those being now I've had the
prime of my life.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah right, that's a total dad joke.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
At Chick fil A, we were told to say how
may serve you today, which was always cringey, and you
have to say my pleasure. You can't say you're welcome.
I worked at Wendy's when I was sixteen. They may
be dressed as Wendy and walk the lobby and pass
out mints to diners. That was embarrassing. She That's what
I'm talking about. That's the kind of stuff that lives
with you forever. I worked at Victoria's Secret back in

(12:34):
the day. We had to wear full black suits, jacket
with pants, and you couldn't take the blazer off even
if you were hot. I remember that God, and I
would imagine you have to wear the product too, But
I no one whatever know that, right? You know, well,
I would imagine you do wear the product because you're
probably getting a discount. Oh yeah, but like you know,
who would that would be bad if I'm an in
Victoria's Secret, you were in Haynes or something of the

(13:00):
little fruit of the loan you own for to the loop?
Is that what the other one said, fruit of the
limp blue? Hey, maybe I do. There's nothing wrong with
it at all. That was kiss, That's where he got
from the loop. That was definitely of the loon. Hi,

(13:20):
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